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The first Parliament session after the 16th general elections ended on
its third day. This is probably the shortest session in recent memory.
The only agenda was the adoption of the customary motion of thanks to
the President for his address to the joint session. There was no regular
question hour in either House, thus, denying the Parliament its
Constitutionally-mandated authority to make the government accountable.
No issue of public importance could be raised by the members. There were
no special mentions on burning issues concerning the people, neither
could any calling attention motions, i.e., calling the attention of the
government to address important issues of peoples' concern be moved.
This was, indeed, a session that transacted no other business associated
with parliamentary proceedings.

Further, this government has
begun to govern through a practice that the BJP had all along opposed –
the 'ordinance raj'. Individual ministers have already raised
contentious issues stoking communal polarization leading to tensions and
clashes like the murder of a young techy in Pune. One Minister of
State with independent charge, who was a former Army Chief of the
country, openly opposed the new Army Chief who was appointed through
proper procedures, rules and regulations. An embarrassed government had
to make the Defence Minister openly negate this in Parliament. Thus
began this government’s innings of `good governance’.

Normally
when a new government assumes office, the President's Address contains
the agenda that the new government will seek to undertake to implement
in its first year. This Address should normally contain, if not a
blueprint, at least a roadmap of the policy direction of the new
government. Further, normally it was presumed that the President's
Address would prioritise the issues which the government considers
important.

The President's speech contained neither a roadmap,
forget a blueprint, nor did it detail any priorities. This Address was a
compilation of BJP’s election slogans and the rest of the speech was a
rehash of its election manifesto. This left the country and the people
no-wiser than they were.

The government’s real agenda of
`development’, a la its much tomtommed `Gujarat model’, has now come
outside the Parliament, when the Prime Minister spoke of “tough economic
decisions” on June 13. He claimed to have “taken over the reins of the
country in circumstances when there is nothing left behind by the
previous government. They left everything empty”. Therefore, he
justified the imposition of further burdens on the people through
“stringent measures” for restoring financial discipline. Saying that
“for ten years, the people of this country have not witnessed a working
government in Delhi”, he tweeted, in his by now established channel of
one way communication, that the “Time has come to take tough decisions
in the interests of the nation”. Is this anyway different from the
previous government’s slogans, one that was not “working for the last
ten years”? Former PM Manmohan Singh had asked the people to “tighten
their belts”. The result was unbearable inflation, growing unemployment
and heaping miseries on the vast majority of our working people. Having
reaped the benefit of this people’s discontent during elections, the
BJP is now asking the people to be prepared for a more lethal dose of
the same prescription.

Again, the PM did not outline what these
“stringent measures” mean. But India Inc., through the media, have been
articulating this agenda. Industry associations were quick to demand tax
concessions in the name of overcoming the economic slowdown. Now
recollect that already the `tax foregone’, as informed by the last UPA
budget, was a whopping Rs. 5.73 lakh crores. In addition, according to
official records, default in direct tax collections amounted to Rs. 5.1
lakh crores. Thus, over Rs. 10 lakh crores of legitimate revenue to the
government have already been denied. India Inc. cries out for further
tax concessions! The last budgetary estimate of our fiscal deficit was
Rs. 5.20 lakh crores. The tax concessions given so far would wipe out
this entire deficit and leave handsome surpluses in the hands of the
government for much-needed infrastructure development. This, in turn,
would have generated new employment boosting domestic demand serving as
the sustainable impetus for manufacturing and industrial growth.

Given the active role in strongly financing this BJP election campaign,
unprecedented in the history of Indian democracy, the assessments of
India Inc. would be closer to what the government’s policies might be
rather than people’s hopes and expectations. The 15 tough steps that
the PM is likely to announce include the phasing out of subsidy on
diesel; monthly increase of LPG and kerosene prices; scaling down of the
food security and fertilizer subsidy; significant amendments to make
land acquisition easier; shrinking the NREGA; labour reforms to enact
`hire and fire’; increase railway fares and lower food subsidy by
reducing the rate of raising minimum support prices. The classic recipe
for profit maximization by imposing burdens on the people! Alarmingly,
there is a new surge for the complete privatization of the public
sector. Cries are getting louder asking the PM/FM not to do this
piecemeal but “Tackle them all in one go by enacting a new omnibus law
giving the government the right to disinvest by Executive action,
overriding existing laws”. To overcome the lack of a majority in the
Rajya Sabha, the PM is being advised “You can convene a joint session to
pass it”. Dangerous portends reminding us of Mussolini’s infamous
definition of fascism – “fusion of corporates with governance’.

The BJP’s election slogans of `development’ and `good governance’ are,
thus unfolding. It appears that soon all of us would be asking the PM
and this government to return our earlier days instead of imposing new
unbearable burdens - “hamaare ache din laotavo”!

MALALA YOUSAF ZAI

‎"I dont mind if I have to sit on floor at school. All I want is education. And I am afraid of no one."

JUSTICE MARKENDEY KATJU'S OPINION ABOUT MAMATA BANERJEE

“She is totally undeserving to be a political leader in a democratic country like India since she has no respect for constitutional and civil rights of citizens and is totally dictatorial, intolerant and whimsical in her behaviour.”

– Justice Markendey Katju, Chairman, Press Council of India

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MEDIA IN WEST BENGAL

“Politics, Journalism, and Big Business work hand in hand for the hoodwinking of the public and the plundering of labour.” (Upton Sinclair/The Brass Check (1919))